I don't watch TV, but this show is great...

[Bullion_Bob]

I don't even subscribe, so I download. Had this show recommended to me.

Time Team

http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/T/timeteam/

Look for it. If you like archeology, you'll love this show. Great stuff.

Feel free to post additional "jewels in the rough" so to speak.

[sunshine05]

I found this link a few weeks ago and there are a lot of really good resources here. It's called 12 dozen places to educate yourself online for free.

http://www.marcandangel.com/2010/11/15/12-dozen-places-to-self-educate-yourself-online/

I've been using some of the links for homeschooling but there is so much there. It's a good thing to bookmark.

[Ponce]

To learn is to know, to know is to understand, to understand is to have knowledge, that opens the doors to the truth..........and the truth is......that you know nothing.

[Jersey Thursday]

I don't even subscribe, so I download. Had this show recommended to me.

Time Team

http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/T/timeteam/

Look for it. If you like archeology, you'll love this show. Great stuff.

Feel free to post additional "jewels in the rough" so to speak.




That does look good.

I hope it is pretty much the opposite of The Naked Archeologist, which is painfully boring.

[Glass]

Hey BB this is a great show. I have been watching it for a few years. I really like the way they present the show. Tony Robinson is an enthusiastic presenter and some of those hole diggers are characters themselves. They certainly dig up some interesting stuff. Sometimes though they come up empty handed but most of the time they are able to re-construct very interesting histories and descriptions of settlements and other places they dig. I remember one this did in a river where they dug out an ancient boat and a jetty or wharf.

An excellent show.

If any of you like English comedy you might like to check out the Black Adder series which has Rowan Atkinson and Tony Robinson, who plays serf/slave/dogsbody Baldrick. Very funny if you like that kind of thing.

Another series Tony did, which I really enjoyed was a kind of historical story telling show. He travelled to the mid east and then woud re-tell a major historical tale while moving from place to place inside ancient ruins. He did one on Odysseus and another on Tales from the Old Testament. I thought they were very entertaining.

[Bullion_Bob]

Hey BB this is a great show. I have been watching it for a few years. I really like the way they present the show. Tony Robinson is an enthusiastic presenter and some of those hole diggers are characters themselves. They certainly dig up some interesting stuff. Sometimes though they come up empty handed but most of the time they are able to re-construct very interesting histories and descriptions of settlements and other places they dig. I remember one this did in a river where they dug out an ancient boat and a jetty or wharf.

An excellent show.

If any of you like English comedy you might like to check out the Black Adder series which has Rowan Atkinson and Tony Robinson, who plays serf/slave/dogsbody Baldrick. Very funny if you like that kind of thing.

Another series Tony did, which I really enjoyed was a kind of historical story telling show. He travelled to the mid east and then woud re-tell a major historical tale while moving from place to place inside ancient ruins. He did one on Odysseus and another on Tales from the Old Testament. I thought they were very entertaining.


I was in Manchester England on business a few years ago, and took a trip up to York which is a particularly excellent medieval walled in city.

I walked around that entire place nonstop for 8 hours. Completely awesome place. The very first episode of TT I watched by chance was special on Viking archeology in, of all places, York England. Loved it.

I'm grabbing entire seasons now via bit torrent. Watched a couple tonight http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-cool02.gif

Thanks

[Bullion_Bob]

That does look good.

I hope it is pretty much the opposite of The Naked Archeologist, which is painfully boring.


They use computer animated overlays to show what use to be there on these country fields they explore as they dig them up. Rather brilliant. Great cast of characters.

I would love to swing a metal detector in these locations.

[TheNocturnalEgyptian]

Thank you for the recommendation, I love stuff like this.

I don't spend much time with television but I make occasional exceptions.